About Us

Founded fall quarter 2015 by Willa Cooksey

SEEDR pursues disaster risk reduction and environmental justice issues in the hopes to empower students through:

Education
Research
Fundraising

Our club

We are a group of Western Washington University students who want to continue the conversation of environmental justice beyond the classroom walls. The club is made up of a diverse group of students who all have a passion for the environment and helping people.

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Overview

SEEDR is a nonprofit Western Washington University Associated Students club that seeks to address current environmental justice and disaster risk issues in the local community and abroad. SEEDR encourages action in both these fields, emphasizing that social justice and the environment are not mutually exclusive issues. SEEDR seeks to bring light to the connection between these two concepts and their role within the community. Members create opportunities to expand one’s footprint in the field as well as raising funds for organizations involved in aiding disaster relief and prevention.

Willa Cooksey

Cooksey is the founder of SEEDR. She applied to the Associated Students to create this club, with the help of Rebekah Paci-Green, a professor at WWU. When Paci-Green approached her about creating a club to start a conversation about environmental justice, Cooksey knew very little about it. With the help of Paci-Green and her club members, she is learning quickly. Cooksey believes that the best way to help a community out is by educating their children on what it means to really be prepared and teach them how to take action when they see injustice happen.

Rebekah Paci-Green

Paci-Green is the director of the Resilience Institute at WWU and advisor for SEEDR. Her PhD is in structuralengineering and anthropology to study physical and social vulnerability and risk perception at CornellUniversity. Some of her humanitarian work has been with organizations and development partners tocreate safer school construction in disaster prone environments using a community based technique. AtWWU, she currently teaches classes in human ecology and the DDR minor. She hopes that this club willbe a successful way to gage students’ interest within the field of environmental justice and if the minorwill be successful